QUEST/DISTEX

Stream Library Manager for

PEGASYS 5.1

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Summary Slide
Stream Databases
Stream Library Window
Working with Component Sets
Selecting Components From a List
Changing the Component Library
Thermodynamic Methods
Petroleum Fractions and CHEF Parameters
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Summary Slide (continued)

Defining a Component Stream
Component Stream Report
Defining a Distillation Stream
Distillation Stream Options
How Distillation Points Are Handled
Distillation Stream Report

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Stream Databases

QUEST/DISTEX
database files
have .qdb as their
extension.

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Stream Databases

QUEST/DISTEX databases are MS Access database files which

have .qdb as their extension

You may open databases from the File menu. You may also
create new databases.

Stream databases continually grow in size even if you delete

information in the database.

The Compact Database option frees up unused space and

improves performance of the system.

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Stream Databases
Stream Database Has
Stream Folders
Component Sets
Component Streams

Distillation Streams
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Stream Databases
Stream databases contain one or more folders. All stream objects
are stored in these folders.
You may create new folders and open or delete existing ones from
the file menu or by pressing the New or Open buttons on the toolbar.
A component set is an ordered list of EDL III library components and
or Petroleum Fractions.
A component stream is based on a component set. You must define
the amount of each component on a mole, weight, liquid volume or
gas volume basis
A distillation stream is one that is characterized by a
Distillation curve (temperature vs. percent off)
Density
Amount of real components (usually light ends)

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Stream Manager Window

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Stream Manager Window

The Stream Library Window is presented when a folder is opened

You may select a stream data type by pressing one of the buttons on
the left side of the window
A list of the stream objects of this type will be presented in the list box
You may open a stream object by pressing the <Select> button and
create a new one by pressing <New>. You may also open a stream
object by double clicking on it.
You may delete a stream object by selecting it on the list and pressing
the <Delete> button.
You may rename an object by choosing Rename on the File menu.
You may add notes to an object by choosing Properties from the Edit
Menu or by pressing the Properties button on the toolbar.

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Working with Component Sets

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Working with Component Sets

The Component Set Definition form is presented when you open

a component set. It has 3 tabs, Component Selection,
Petroleum Fractions and Chef Parameters.
You may enter the alias of any EDL component in the textbox
labeled "Component (Alias)" and press the Enter key or <Add>
button
You may order components in boiling point order by pressing
the NBP Sort button. You may also move individual
components by selecting a component in the list with the
mouse and dragging it to a new location in the list.
If you select a library component on the list and press the
Rename button you will be shown a list of alternative EDL
aliases to choose from. If you select a Petroleum fraction you
will be able to provide a new name.

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Selecting Components From a List

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Selecting Components From a List

Pressing the <Select From Component Library> button will present the
"Component Selection - List/Search" form.
The EDL library components are displayed in the list box at the center
of the form. Some components appear multiple times in the list if they
have more than one alias. You may narrow the list to individual
component families by clicking on any entry in the "Component Family"
list box in the upper center of the form.
The components in the list may be sorted by full name (the default),
alias or chemical formula.
You may locate a component by using the search feature
You may select components by using the mouse to highlight the ones
you want in the "component name" list box and then pressing the Add
Components button. Alternatively you may select individual components
by double clicking on that component in the list.
You may deselect an individual component by double clicking on it in
the selected list
When you press OK, the components you have selected will be added
to the list on the "Component Selection" form.

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Changing the Component Library

User component libraries may be provided by
EMR&Es Thermodynamics Group
They consist of 2 files, one with no file extension
and a matching file with the extension .lst
A component set may contain components from
any number of libraries

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Changing the Component Library

QUEST/DISTEX automatically provides access to the standard

EDL component library (EDLCLIB)
If you are using a special thermo package prepared by ER&E's
Thermodynamics Section, you may have a customized
component library
To access this library, press the "Change Component Library"
button. When the Select Component Library dialog appears,
select the file corresponding to the special library. Note that you
must have a file of the same name as the component library
with the extension .lst. This file contains information needed to
present a list of components.
You may have components from different libraries in the same
component set.

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Thermodynamic Methods
Press <Update
Method Sets> to
add or modify
methods
DCUBEOS and
FUGLIG
methods are
provided by
default.

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Thermodynamic Methods
In this example, the <Update Method Sets> button has been
pressed and the form shown above is displayed.
A new method set is being added based on the DCUBEOS global
method set.
In this set, a user data library for DCUBEOS binary interaction
parameters is being defined.
This parameter file was developed by EMR&Es thermodynamics
section. It must be placed in the PEGASYS 5.0 application directory
in order to be accessible by EDL. The file must not have a file
extension.
Note that the method set is given a description to identify it as being
different from the Standard DCUBEOS using standard library files.
Any set may be defined as the default set. The default set is always
used when a PEGASYS 5.0 equipment program calls on
QUEST/DISTEX for physical property calculations.

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Petroleum Fractions and CHEF

Parameters
CHEF parameters
are used to
characterize
petroleum
fractions.
CHEF is:
CHaracterization
of EDL Fractions.

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Petroleum Fractions and CHEF

Parameters

QUEST/DISTEX allows
you to check on the
parameters you want to
use in characterizing
petroleum fractions
All of CHEFs primary
and secondary
parameters are available.
When the Petroleum
Fractions tab is selected,
text boxes appear in
which the parameters
may be entered.

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Defining a Component Stream

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Defining a Component Stream

When you create a new component stream you must select the
component set the stream will be based on.
The Stream Flowrate and Composition form is shown above.
This form may be made longer to display more of the
components.
You may specify compositions on a Mole, Weight, Standard
Liquid or Standard Gas Volume basis. You may change the
composition basis of a stream at any time by choosing the
Change Basis button.
You may specify a stream's composition as component flow
rates, fractions or percents. As you enter the amounts, the total
is updated and displayed below the grid. You must specify the
flowrate of the stream in the Total Stream Flowrate textbox. You
may click on the units of measure label to select the flow basis
and units of measure.

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Defining a Component Stream

Two specifications are required to define the thermal state of a

stream. The first specification is either Temperature or
Pressure. If Temperature is chosen, the second specification
may then be Pressure, Bubble Point, Dew Point, or Vapor
Fraction. When a stream is first created, its thermal state is set
to standard conditions (i.e. 60 deg F, 14.696 psia).

You may flash a stream and calculate its thermophysical

properties by choosing the Spot Flash button.

When you save a stream, its physical properties are calculated

at the defined thermal state and are stored in the database.

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Component Stream Report

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Component Stream Report

The Component Stream report may be generated by choosing

Print Preview from the File menu while a component stream is
open.
The Print Preview
button on the Toolbar may also be used.
Components amounts are shown on a mole, weight and liquid
volume basis. Component rates are shown on the same basis
as the total stream flow rate.

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Stream Operations on the Tools Menu

Some operations
do not appear on
the Toolbar. You
must use the
Tools menu to get
to them.

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Flash Operation

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Flash Operation

Any number of streams based on a component set may be blended and

flashed. Product streams may be optionally generated.
Streams are added to the combined stream list by selecting from the list
on the left and pressing add (or by double clicking).
Stream rates and conditions may be updated by selecting the stream on
the list on the right and pressing the <update> button.
Any thermodynamic method set defined for the component set may be
used.
The overall enthalpy of the streams at their incoming flow rates and
conditions is calculated.
The first flash spec may be pressure, temperature, or delta pressure
The second spec may be temperature, pressure, duty, dew point, bubble
point, fraction vapor, molar enthalpy, entropy or volume
Choose Run from the Tools menu, press F9 or press the run button on
the toolbar to initiate the calculation.

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Phase Envelope

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Phase Envelope

Phase envelopes may be generated for any stream.

Flash points are copied to the clipboard
The properties of the graphical display may be
changed by the user.
The phase envelope procedure involves doing a series
of flashes over a range of temperatures and pressure.
The first flash is a pressure / fraction vaporized flash to
determine the temperature for the first point.
Then a series of temperature/fraction vaporized
flashes are done until the critical point is reached. At
this point the fraction vaporized is switched to 1.0 starting fraction vaporized.
The calculations stop when temperatures or pressures
exceed the minimum or maximum limits as defined on
the options tab.

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Class Problem #1
Start QUEST/DISTEX from the PEGASYS 4.0 menu as a separate
program. (i.e. Do not start PEGASYS).
- Create a new database in the directory:
C:\APPS\PEGASYS.40\STRMDATA\
and give the new database the name:
EXERCIS1.QDB
- Create a new folder in your new EXERCIS1.QDB database and give it
the name: FOLDER1
- Use the Tools Menu to set the default Units Slate to METRIC.

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Class Problem #1, continued

- Create a Component Set with the following components:
- CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)
- H2
(Hydrogen)
- CH4 (Methane)
- C2H6 (Ethane)
- C3H8 (Propane)
- Save your Component Set with the name LightGases.
- Create another Component Set with the following components:
- C7H16
(Heptane)
- C8H18
(Octene)
- C9H20
(Isononane)
- Save this Component Set with the name HeavyGases.

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Class Problem #1, continued

- Create a Component Stream based on the LightGases Component Set
having the following characteristics:
- Flow Rate:
100 Kg/hr
- Basis:
Molar
- CO2
10 %
- H2
15 %
- CH4
25 %
- C2H6
30 %
- C3H8
20 %
- Save this Component Stream with the name LightStream1.
- Perform a Spot Flash from the Component Stream screen with the
conditions set to 2.5 bara and 20.0 deg C.

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Class Problem #1, continued

How many Kg/hr of CO2 vapour are there downstream of the flash?
16.57 Kg/hr (Hint: Look on Page 2 of the flash report)
- Change the Second Flash Specification to be 50 % Mole Fraction
Vapour and run the Spot Flash again.
- What temperature was selected to force the flash to result in 50 % Mole
Fraction Vapour?
-97.1 Deg C
- What is the Fraction Vapor on a weight basis at these conditions? 31.54 %
- What is the liquid density? 630.7 kg/m3
- Close and Save the LightStream1 Component Stream.
- Use the Tools Menu to find the Critical Point of LightStream1:
approx. 120 bara and 25 deg C
(Hint: Use the Phase Diagram operation.)

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Class Problem #1, continued

- Use the Tools Menu to perform a Flash Component Streams
operation
on LightStream1 at the same conditions as the Spot Flash:
- i.e. 2.5 bara
- and 50 % Mole Fraction Vapor
- What is the Weight Vapor Fraction?
31.54 %
- What is the Liquid Density?
630.7 kg/m3
- The results are the same as the Spot Flash, but the Flash Component
Streams operation has additional capabilities over the Spot Flash. For
example:
- Keep the First Flash Specification at 2.5 Bara and change the Second
Flash Specification to a Duty of 10.0 kW and run the flash again:
- What is the new Temperature?
- 55.8 Deg C
- What is the Mole Fraction Vapor?
96.44 %

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Class Problem #1, continued

- Without shutting down QUEST/DISTEX, start up Excel and perform an
Edit/Paste. Notice that the Stream Component Percentages table from
the second page of the Flash Operation report are now in the spreadsheet.
The Flash Component Streams operation automatically puts this
information on the system clipboard to make it ready for pasting into
another application.
- Change the Second Flash Specification back to 50 % Mole Fraction
Vapor. In the Flash Products box, select the Liq + Vap item. Then in the
Flash Product Steam Names box, give your vapor stream the name
MyVapor and your liquid stream the name MyLiquid.
- Run the flash and then close the flash windows so you can see the
Stream Library Folder. Notice that you have two new Component
Streams named MyVapor and MyLiquid.
- Perform a Spot Flash on both MyVapor and MyLiquid and look at the
compositions.

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Class Problem #1, continued

- Use the Tools Menu to perform a new Flash Component Streams

operation. This time select both MyVapor and MyLiquid and set the
First Flash Specification to Pressure of 2.5 Bara and the Second Flash
Specification to 50 % Mole Fraction.

- Under the Flash Products box select the Single Mixed Prod.

- Under the Flash Produce Stream Names enter the name MyMix.

- Run the Flash.

- Close the Flash windows so you can see the Stream Library Folder.
Notice that you have a new Component Stream named MyMix in
addition to MyVapor and MyLiquid.

- Perform a Spot Flash on MyMix and the original LightStream1 and

printout the reports. The MyMix report should be the same as the
LightStream1 report.

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Defining a Distillation Stream

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Defining a Distillation Stream

The Distillation stream form allows you to define a stream by

providing a distillation curve, gravity curve or average gravity
and optionally the amount of real components in the stream.

You may enter component quantities in the grid in the lower right
corner of the form. The distillation curve you enter must reflect
the presence of these real components.

Two or more distillation curve points are required. The standard

13 points are displayed when a stream is created. Any
additional points may be added to the grid.

You may delete rows in the grid by selecting them (by dragging
the mouse over the buttons on the left of the row) and then
pressing the <delete> key.

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Defining a Distillation Stream

You may change the units of measure for the distillation

temperatures, by pressing the Convert Temp button above the
grid.

You must specify a flow rate for the (dry) stream. The specified
flow rate does not include any water that may be present for the
stream.

You may specify that water is present on the dry stream as a

liquid volume percent of the dry streams flow rate.

When streams are blended, LV% water on the blended product

is calculated. When you cut a stream using the cut operation,
water is not calculated for product streams. If you generate
pseudocomponents for a distillation stream, water is added to
the component stream that is generated.

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Distillation Stream Options

Distillation
stream
options are
set on the
Options
tab.

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Distillation Stream Options

A distillation stream may be defined as a 15/5 (TBP), GCD, D86, D-158 (gas oil), D-1160 or HIVAC-C curve.

A 15/5 or GCD curve may be entered on a liquid volume or

weight percent basis.

Distillation points (for D1160 and HIVAC-C) must always be

converted to 1.0 Atmosphere equivalent temperatures.

A D-86 curve may be entered as Observed or Stem Corrected

values. Most ASTM D-86 results are presented on an observed
basis.

Gravity may be entered as API gravity, Specific Gravity or

Watson K factor.

Component amounts may be on a Liquid Volume or Weight

Basis.

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How Distillation Points Are Handled

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How Distillation Points Are Handled

The distillation curve may be displayed by choosing Display Curve

from the Tools menu or by pressing the
button on the toolbar.

In this example, temperature points are shown as a function of

Percent Off on a Probability Distribution basis.

Values for the standard 13 points are extrapolated and interpolated

linearly on this basis.

If an average gravity is entered for the stream, a gravity curve is

generated assuming a constant Watson K factor over the range of
the curve.

You may adjust points graphically while this curve is displayed. The
program always stores the raw data points as entered in the grid
and the adjusted values.

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How Distillation Points Are Handled

In addition, a 15/5 or TBP curve on a LV basis is calculated and

stored for each stream. If a stream is defined on something
other than a 15/5 basis, the 15/5 representation has the
standard 13 points. If the stream is defined as a 15/5
distillation, the 15/5 representation includes all the entered
points plus any of the standard 13 points that were not entered.

Streams are blended, cut and converted to pseudocomponents

using the 15/5 representation of the stream.

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Distillation Stream Report

A Distillation Stream Report may be generated by
choosing Print Preview from the file menu
It displays the standard 13 points for all distillation
types
Detailed 15/5 curves on Wt and LV basis are also
available, and are placed on the clipboard for use
in other applications

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Distillation Stream Report

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Import and Export Options

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Import and Export Options

You may import components and streams from another folder or from any other
QUEST/DISTEX database

You may import crude assay data from the IMPACT Crude Assay Database and
create Distillation streams. The distillation streams which are created include a
15/5 distillation and gravity curve for the full boiling range of the crude. In order
to use this feature you must have a USERID on the IMPACT system.

You may import a file containing an EDL III input block (or PRO/II
COMPONENT DATA section keywords) and a PRO/II Stream Data section.
The program creates a component set from the EDL III components and it
creates a component stream for each stream in the Stream Data section.

You may create a PRO/II input file from any component stream in your
database. The file will contain a Title statement, Component Data section,
Thermodynamic data section (or EDL III Input Block) and Stream Data section.

You may import and export stream databases used by earlier PEGASYS 3.x
applications

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Importing PRO/II Streams

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Importing PRO/II Streams

Steps to follow in importing all simulation streams into

QUEST/DISTEX.
1. Use the PRO/II Programers File Editor (PFE) to open your
PRO/II input file (*.INP) and add the following line in the General
Data section:

DBASE DATA=STREAM
1. Save and close the file. Then run this PRO/II case in batch
mode . This creates an output file with the extension .P2I
containing stream property statements for all streams.
2. Use the PFE to edit both your *.INP file and the new *.P2I file
as follows:
Specify the Temperature and Pressure for each stream of
mixed phase. (i.e. Uncomment the lines with TEMP and PRES
and comment out the lines containing LFRAC = )

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Importing PRO/II Streams

Copy the front part of your *.INP file from keyword TITLE
through keyword STREAM DATA.

Paste the lines you just cut from the *.INP file into your *.P2I
file to create a valid PRO/II input file for QUEST/DISTEX.

Type in the keywords DIMENSION at the top and UNIT

OPERATION at bottom of the *.P2I file.

3. We recommend creating a new folder in Q/D for each new

PRO/II case you import.

4. Choose Import Thermo and PRO/II Input from the Q/D File
menu.

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Configuration Options

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Configuration Options

You may set your configuration options by choosing Set

Preferences from the Options menu.
General Information is shared by all PEGASYS applications and is
used on reports
Component streams may be exported as PRO/II input files with
Thermo specified either in an EDL III input block or as PRO/II
Component Data and Thermo Data statements.
You may set the default basis on which new Component Streams
are defined (mole, weight, liquid or gas volume)
You may set the default basis on which new Distillation Streams
are defined (weight or liquid volume)
You may choose whether imported streams from PRO/II are
flashed with physical properties calculated and saved.
You may select or suppress the calculation of detailed 15/5 curves
on an LV and WT basis in the Distillation Stream Report.

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Stream Properties

Any of EDLs stream

properties may be
calculated over a range
of temperatures and
pressures.
Calculated results are
displayed in a report
and are copied to the
clipboard for use in
other applications.

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Steam Tables

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Steam Tables

The Steam Tables application has two calculation modes:

Specify two thermal states - calculate the enthalpy change

Specify one thermal state and an enthalpy change - calculate

the second state

You may produce a report of the calculation by choosing Print

Preview from the File menu or pressing the Print Preview button
on the toolbar.

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Blending Operation
Blends one or
more
component
and/or
distillation
streams to
create a 15/5
distillation
product stream.
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Blending Operation
In this example, a single Component
stream (Naphtha) is being blended to
create a distillation stream called 15/5
Naphtha.
The component stream has library
components as well as petroleum fractions.
By doing this blend, an engineer can take
the resulting 15/5 Naphtha stream and
create a new component stream with a new
set of petroleum fractions.
By selecting Pentane as the highest boiling
component to track during the blend, the
resulting blend will have real components
defined.

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Cut Stream Operation

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Cut Stream Operation

Any number of product streams may be

generated with a single cut operation.
Stream initial and final boiling points may
be specified by temperature or by LV%
range.
Cut streams are created assuming perfect
fractionation.
Any water in the stream being cut will not
be included in the products.
Real components will be included in
products based on the amount of
components in the front-end of the stream
being cut, and the LV% range of the cut
stream product.

Note
Light ends
in the
product
stream

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Generate PseudoComponents

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Generate PseudoComponents

Any distillation stream may be selected from the drop down list.

The 15/5 representation of the stream is shown.

Real components defined on the stream are shown with green

bars whose widths correspond to their LV%s.

Range end points may be defined as temperatures or LV%s

Cuts are generated between range end points by equal LV%s

or temperature increments

Resulting Pseudocomponents (Petroleum Fractions) are defined

by a Normal Boiling point and a Specific Gravity.

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Source Button for Streams

Generated by an Operation

Source
Button

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Source Button for Streams

Generated by an Operation

This is the component stream generated by the

PseudoComponent Operation. Note that the Source button can
be used to return that operation where a new set of range end
points and cuts may be specified.
Products of Blend and Cut operations also will show a Source
button.

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Consolidate Component Sets

Create Master list of components by
consolidating two or more component sets
All streams defined on consolidated
component sets are mapped into new master
component set
METHANE
ETHANE
PROPANE
WATER

ETHANE
PROPANE
BUTANE
PENTANE
HEXANE

METHANE
ETHANE
PROPANE
BUTANE
PENTANE
HEXANE
WATER

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Consolidate Component Sets

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Class Problem #2

This exercise uses two pre-existing PRO/II files to illustrate how to

import PRO/II streams into QUEST/DISTEX. (You need to have
PRO/II installed to create the .P2I file from the .INP file.)

Ask your instructor where to find the two files:

- A1TEST.INP
- A1TEST.P2I
The .P2I file was produced by putting this line:
DBASE DATA=STREAM

in the .INP file and running PRO/II in batch mode. Since this is not
a PRO/II course the .INP and .P2I files have been provided for
you.

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Class Problem #2

Use whatever text editor you like (NOTEPAD is always available) to cut
the necessary lines from the .INP file and paste them into the .P2I
file. In the .INP file, cut from the TITLE line through the STREAM
DATA line. Paste these lines above the first line of the .P2I file.

Dont forget to put the DIMENSION keyword right before the PRINT line
and the UNIT OPERATION keyword at the bottom of the .P2I file.

Run QUEST/DISTEX and create a new Folder. Then import the

A1TEST.P2I file into QUEST/DISTEX. Use QUEST/DISTEX to look at
the composition of some of the imported Component Streams.

Do a Spot Flash on one of the Component Streams.

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Class Problem #3
This problem involves using QUEST/DISTEX to create
PRO/II input for the feed stream to a depentanizer. The
stream is characterized with real components and a
distillation curve as follows:
Real Components
C3
nC4
nC5
Pseudo Components
C6 - 430F

Liquid Volume Percent

2.0
10.0
18.0
70.0

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Class Problem #3, continued

The C6 - 430 deg F fraction is characterized by an ASTM D86 curve as follows:
Volume Percent
IBP
5.00
10.00
20.00
30.00
40.00
50.00
60.00
70.00
80.00
90.00
95.00
FBP

deg C
65.56
101.67
121.11
143.33
152.78
160.00
162.78
168.33
173.89
179.44
190.56
198.89
221.11

deg F
150.00
215.00
250.00
290.00
307.00
320.00
325.00
335.00
345.00
355.00
375.00
390.00
430.00

The average gravity for the curve is:

API Gravity = 51o or Specific Gravity = 0.7753

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Class Problem #3, continued

The C6 - 430 F fraction must be converted and represented by pseudocomponents as
follows with equal cuts by Temperature:
PseudoComponent
1
2-3
4-5
6
7-8

Range End Point

(Volume Percent)
5
25
80
90
100

Number of Cuts
1
2
2
1
2

The suggested steps to follow in solving this problem are as follows.

- Select or create a units of measure slate that is correct for you.
- Create a new stream folder for this problem and name it Problem3.
- Create a Component Set for the 3 real components.
- Create a Component Stream for the Component Set.
- Create a Distillation Stream from the given D86 data.
(Note: use the No Components option when making the Distillation Stream)

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Class Problem #3, continued

- Use the Create Pseudocomponents menu item to create the
pseudocomponents.
(Note: Be sure to enter a Name and click on the Run icon before
saving. Also, ignore the NBP less than 100F warning.)#
- Use the Consolidate Component Sets operation to combine the
Component Set having 3 real components and the newly created
PseudoComponents.
Note: When creating the Component Stream, ensure that the component basis is
LV. You may enter the volume amounts listed in the problem statement (2.0, 10.0
etc.). QUEST/DISTEX does not require amounts to sum to 1.0 or 100. Specify a
flowrate of 30 kbbl/day. Choose Print Preview to view the component stream
report. Close the form.
When creating the distillation stream for the C6 - 430F fraction, ensure that the
options are set properly (i.e. ASTM D86, observed, API gravity or specific gravity).
Once you have entered. distillation points and the average gravity, specify the flow
as 70 kbbl/day.

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Class Problem #3, continued

View the distillation curve by selecting Display Curve from the Tools menu
(or by pressing the display graph button on the toolbar). Choose Print
Preview to view the distillation stream report.
You should now have a Component Stream with the 3 real components
and a Component Stream for the C6 - 430F fraction as pseudo
components.
Use the Consolidate Component Sets operation to create a new
component set containing all the components. It maps the C3 - C5 and
the C6 - 430F streams to this consolidated set. It also creates a new
stream which is the sum of the two streams.
Select this new consolidated stream by clicking on it in the Stream
Library window. Then select Export EDL III and PRO/II Input from the
File, Import/Export menu. This exported file can now be used as a
PRO/II Input file.

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Use Spot Flash to determine the properties of the stream at 90 degF and
19.7 psia.
- The spot flash results should be all liquid with a Mol. Wt. of 97.94 and a
Density of 43.94 lbs/ft3 .
Generate a Phase Envelope for the depentanizer feed. Use the graph
tools to change the minimum and maximum values for the x and y
coordinates.
Import the stream Brunei Light from the database file CRUDES.QDB
given to you by the instructor.
Use the Cut Operation to generate a C3 (-43.6 degF) to 430 degF cut.
Generate pseudocomponents for the new cut stream and compare their
properties to the depentanizer feed created earlier.

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